Battle of the Hot Hatch icons - Golf R32 vs BMW M135i

Having a GTI really isn’t anyting special these days. But if you can come up with the little addon R32 on you Golf the interested croud raise the eyebrows. 6 cylinder in a Golf - already the idea was crazy back in 1991. With the Golf V R32 the Hot Hatch “big block” era ended for years…

…till the BMW M135i appeared. 2013 Chris Harris named the BMW M135 “the bargain of the century” and “some kind of a baby supercar”. That should translate into Ultimate Hot Hatch - And it has a powerful block with 6 cylinders. But this era also is about to end in the nearest future.